Norfolk Gliding Club Competitions

Thursday, 13 December 2012

The Eastern Regionals will be held at Tibenham from 25th May to 2nd June 2013. The entry form is now available on the competition website, and a discount is available to all pilots who sign up before 1st January.

Sunday, 10 June 2012

Prize giving is over and the comp is closed. The Director and comp team would like to thank all the competitors for a safe and enjoyable week. After all it is the competitors that make the competition a success. Safe journey home to all.

CPM and 20 11:16
EKA, JNR, CJ, LS7 and AC at 11:17
EF and 999 at 11:18
then T5, 480, 2W, GW all go together at 11:22
768 (the current leader in the comp) at 11:31
AV8 just before him at 11:30
08 at 11:34
and then GT and W27 at 11:42

Morning everyone. There are no retrieves from the downwind hedge of tattered tents. Even the most sorry looking tent yesterday has survived the night.We are watching the satpics and wind closely. We update you all when we have news

Friday, 8 June 2012

People are watching films on iPads and playing cards in the club house. A few brave souls venture out with mutterings of 'I am going for a walk, I maybe some time'. Cars are parked blocking the wind from destroying people tents. What can we say the British weather has such a sense of humour........

Morning everyone. Briefing at 1000. As you will already know there are no task sheets on the tables. All the competitors gliders are safely in the boxes and copious amounts of tea and coffee are being consumed.

It appears some had dropped their manuscript for the "Poems and Pints" night. I've included only a brief excerpt to keep your powder dry. Please contact me if you recognise it as yours to arrange its return ...

"Half a knot, half a knot,
Half a KM onward,
In the valley of Waveney
Dove the DG six hundred.
'Forward, the Regional Brigade!
Charge for the spuds' he said:
Into the valley of Waveney
Dove the DG six hundred."

Tuesday, 5 June 2012

Well it is time to sign off for the evening. The rain radar clearly shows the front not far down the road. The rain looks like it will pass through in the night with better weather behind, lets certainly hope so. Catch up tomorrow from 0700 for the next installment.

loggers have been scored and last launch time has expired. There was a period in the afternoon where club aircraft were soaring over the site but no competitors, that had landed, back felt like a re-light.
768 scored 50.6 km and returned to land back. Y was 60km so unfortunately the day is a non scoring day. Close but not not close enough unfortunately.

competitors have made the first TP and come back to the airfield after the HTN leg looked iffy. GT is still airborne so who knows ? but at the moment we don't believe anyone has got past Y unfortunately.

The satpic is showing areas of top cover but it seems that the air is unstable enough for it to be soarable underneath. Lets hope the top cover thins rather gets to thick for the sun to be totally cut off.

Monday, 4 June 2012

The comp team are signing off now for the evening. Follow us tomorrow to see what develops at the Eastern Regionals from Tibenham. Well done to all the competitors for today, lets hope for more racing as the week goes on.

The last of the loggers have been upload and we have some scores. Looks like Will Ellis in 768 has the day with 847pts. George Green in T5 2nd with 777pts and Norman Clowes 3rd in 20 with 761pts. All very prelim of course but a good challenging day and a racing task.

Start line open at 1305. Looks like they want to get started early will as there are a few showers about. The cloud base is forecast to rise so hopefully there will not be to much vertical development causing big showers.

Briefing is over. Looking out the window we can see gaps in the cloud and bits of blue. The satpic shows the clearance rapidly approaching.
Tasks are:
Task A TIB-MRM-WIS-WEN-DIS-TSF 169.9km
Task B TIB-MRM-SCL-DIS-TSF 110km
Task C TIB-WYM-REE-DIS-TSF 91.1km

Sunday, 3 June 2012

Competitiors are enjoying a charity Cream Tea sale in the club bar area and there is a Seeyou/Oudie teach in going on in the briefing room for those interested in learning more about equipment and programs available to glider pilots.

And we don't mean the Scottish pop group from the 80's !!! We have woken up this morning to the forecast rain, no surprises as the weather is as our Met man forecast. Some of the comp team are on there third coffee of the day already..........